Pandemic-economics blog

I’m OK with wearing a CovidCard. But are you? There’s no point me doing it alone.

New Zealand’s COVID Tracer app is “on track to achieve nothing”, according to Sam Morgan.

Zero community transmission. Just a handful of active cases, all in quarantine. New Zealand is in an…

Elimination. Border incursions. An outbreak. A lockdown, which takes us back to elimination.

Alert level 1! Like you no doubt, I am breathing a sigh of relief. But no one can guarantee that New…

Last October, New Zealand communities elected their local government councillors and mayors.

Eighty-four percent of New Zealanders were concerned about the chances that they or someone close to…

Are humans destined to be over-prepared for yesterday’s existential threat, and under-prepared for t…

In times of crisis, it is said, speed is of the essence. And the dramatic consequences of the COVID-…

“Shut the borders” is a natural first reaction to an external threat.

New Zealanders have a lot of experience with islands and unwanted organisms – keeping them away, lea…

As we (hopefully) exit from the constraints imposed to control the COVID-19 virus, it’s worth thinki…

Over the last few weeks’, you might have felt like the country was making its way along a ridge betw…

Let me introduce you to RPE, a “quick & dirty” estimate of the effective reproduction number of COVI…